Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co. • Blacksburg, VA

6d

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs with a focus on prescription accuracy, patient counseling, and pharmaceutical care. The role helps create an outstanding customer experience by supporting the Customer 1st strategy and encouraging associates to provide excellent service. It also helps maintain a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment and supports department sales, profit, quality assurance, expense control, scheduling, and staffing goals.

The pharmacist monitors department functions and ensures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA, as well as company policies and pharmacy standards. Responsibilities include overseeing inventory, controlled substances, recordkeeping, security, equipment, product returns, signage, and other pharmacy operations. The position requires maintaining a professional image and demonstrating respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy.
• Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• One year of retail experience.
• Ability to speak, read, and/or write a second language.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
• Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
• Ensure the pharmacy complies with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
• Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
• Develop a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
• Create a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness, and cooperation with customers, associates, and outside vendors.
• Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies and procedures, recordkeeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, reports to management, and product recalls according to company policy.
• Maintain proper records, inventory, and security for scheduled drugs, including controlled substances and narcotics.
• Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources.
• Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
• Maintain records required for legal compliance, Kroger policies, accounting policies, and other requested reports.
• Maintain a clean, neat work area, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
• Ensure product returns are handled promptly and according to company policy.
• Maintain equipment, including computers, printers, accuracy scanners, and cash registers, in working condition.
• Maintain and organize policy manuals, reference books, state laws, and required equipment, and verify staff knowledge of their use.
• Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacists’ photographs and names, and other requested signs.
• Continuously broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
• Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time